Visual Music Project: African Float

2005 Visual Music Project, African Float

The Visual Music Project-African Float is one of Janneys experiments in physical music. While the concept of visual music is not new, technology is now available to create a poly-visual instrument- the ability for more than one insrument to create images simultaneously in real time. In this way, the musicians interact both harmonically and visually as they play.

African Float was a composed for

Visual Synthesizer: Christoper Janney

EWI (electronic wind instrument) Stan Strickland

Electic Bass with pitch-to-midi-converter- Wes Wirth

Electronic Drums- Joe Galeota

Using traditional African symbols (Adinkra Symbols) as the visual information mixed with environmental sounds- crickets, birds, cows- the piece is a unique exploration in presenting visual information together with musical concepts about African impressions.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• art
• music
• Janney
• Christopher Janney
• Phenomenarts
• public art